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Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by radimm »

tiffanyh wrote: post #12

Vultr.com seems to be the new guys coming after Linode. Does any [Linode users] have any experience with them? For a company so new they have a surprisingly amount of more features than Linode (eg BSD support, more data centers, dedicated instances, etc) Note: I'm no way affiliated with either company. Edit: adding clarity and intent. My edit is in brackets. I'm no shill :)

Using them now for about a year. Really can't find anything to wrong about them

- decent performance (both IO/CPU)

- custom ISOs (yay BSD!)

- elastic IPs

- plenty of locations (so far tried only NY and EU)

- good support

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by mgkimsal »

kjax wrote: post #11
mgkimsal wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

they've had issues with security around their own systems (payment info leaked, IIRC). And if their systems are compromised, because they have the ability to touch my systems (root password reset, for example), there's a potential breach there. and they had their own massive DDOS attack which went on for days last winter (dec 2015?)

Their DDOS was so bad that we had to migrate all of our servers from Linode to Google, which wasn't particularly fun during the weeks of intermittent connectivity. I think it was on the order of weeks, rather than days.

Atlanta seemed to be the primary target. We had something at LA and never had a problem. Servers in Atlanta were down for days, then up for a bit, then down for days again. I do believe in total it was probably 2ish weeks...

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by pfg »

panamafrank wrote: post #37
gist wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> unless you colocate your own stuff in a locked cage How much is a locked cage really needed? To me the risks are really someone messing with your cables and taking you off line, or accidentally pulling a power plug, which is QOS really. Not security. Can't remember when I heard of someone carting off a server or plugging in a cable to the console port (once they have gotten even into the racks and are on cameras) a…

PCI compliance i think, also merchants wouldn't touch you with a barge pole if you don't have dedicated hardware... so no aws/gce.

You can definitely run PCI compliant infrastructure on services such as AWS. Stripe runs on AWS IIRC. Many (most?) AWS services are PCI compliant and using them won't prevent you from being PCI certified.

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by aroch »

panamafrank wrote: post #37
gist wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> unless you colocate your own stuff in a locked cage How much is a locked cage really needed? To me the risks are really someone messing with your cables and taking you off line, or accidentally pulling a power plug, which is QOS really. Not security. Can't remember when I heard of someone carting off a server or plugging in a cable to the console port (once they have gotten even into the racks and are on cameras) a…

PCI compliance i think, also merchants wouldn't touch you with a barge pole if you don't have dedicated hardware... so no aws/gce.

Contemporary PCI compliance does not require dedicated hardware -- You can by PCI Level I compliant on DO, AWS and many other shared-infra providers.

Also, worth noting, since most places are integrating payments through, e.g., Stripe, the requirements on the gateway server are much lower.

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by brendoncrawford »

I have not checked lately, but there have been two major features lacking in Linode that have compelled me to move away to AWS:

1. Managed firewall service, such as AWS Security Groups. I really do not want to have to manage hundreds of iptables scripts.

2. Easy point and click, yet advanced private network management such as AWS VPC. Last I checked, I had to run OpenVPN on top of my Linode setup, which really was not ideal.

Have these things been improved lately on Linode?

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by azinman2 »

pan69 wrote: post #18

Congrats Linode. I have been a customer for many years. Why could there not be a $5 1 GB plan? I have quite a few instances for which I don't need even 1 GB, let alone 2. Doubling the RAM is great but what about storage? Why is RAM and storage still coupled? It's a pay for what you don't use system, having to upgrade to a 24 GB, 8 core box just to get some decent drive space. Ridiculous. I have been with Linode for m…

You can add disk space or ram independently, if I remember correctly, once you have a VM.

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by juliand »

pan69 wrote: post #18

Congrats Linode. I have been a customer for many years. Why could there not be a $5 1 GB plan? I have quite a few instances for which I don't need even 1 GB, let alone 2. Doubling the RAM is great but what about storage? Why is RAM and storage still coupled? It's a pay for what you don't use system, having to upgrade to a 24 GB, 8 core box just to get some decent drive space. Ridiculous. I have been with Linode for m…

Once Digital Ocean launches their block storage feature, it will probably put some pressure on them. Honestly, it's something I've been looking forward as well.

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by defective »

tiffanyh wrote: post #12

Vultr.com seems to be the new guys coming after Linode. Does any [Linode users] have any experience with them? For a company so new they have a surprisingly amount of more features than Linode (eg BSD support, more data centers, dedicated instances, etc) Note: I'm no way affiliated with either company. Edit: adding clarity and intent. My edit is in brackets. I'm no shill :)

I loved Linode and used them till about 2014 or so, but switched to Ramnode and then to Vultr. I needed storage more often than performance, I use them to tar mirrored package repositories mainly, and a Linode or Ramnode with double the space of one of those costs a fortune.

I hated everything about Ramnode, but I can't remember specifics. I stuck with Vultr after just setting up some storage instances because it was nice having everything in one spot. I've been able to host some wargames/CTFs as well because of the custom ISO support.

Seems like there's a lot of tinfoil around eye-level here; FYI not a shill and definitely accepting suggestions for other VPS with root, big storage, and custom os/iso options.

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by ryanlol »

Veratyr wrote: post #32
cpqq wrote: post #30

Sounds like a shill. RamNode consistently beats out Vultr on LowEndTalk. I remember the first days of Vultr when everyone signed up and saw other VMs and other people's billing information. RamNode has a great infrastructure, while most of Vultr's locations are single-homed. I'd check LowEndTalk and other sites, and ask Vultr about their disk RAID before choosing due to comments like this.

I assure you, I'm no shill. Like I said, RamNode does very well in benchmarks. My problem with them is that after being hacked, exposing my personal information, they refused to remove it, citing nebulous "legal reasons" compelling them to retain it (which similar hosts had no issues with). Frankly I haven't had another exchange with their support, so I can't comment on their service beyond good benchmarks, terrible…

Not only that, they've got a pretty interesting attitude to user information in general.

http://imgur.com/a/TVVXq

Here's a ticket conversation between the CEO of ramnode and a customer where the CEO Nick essentially attempts to extort the customer for information on one of his friends (me)

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